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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

Subjects : clep, literature
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.






2. A three-line stanza.






3. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.






4. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.






5. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.






6. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.






7. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.






8. A customary feature of a literary work - such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy - the inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable - or the use of a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle.






9. A short saying with a moral.






10. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.






11. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.






12. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.






13. A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means.






14. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.






15. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.






16. A story passed down over generations that is believed to be based on real events and real people.






17. What a story or play is about.






18. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.






19. An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action.






20. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.






21. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.






22. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.






23. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.






24. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.






25. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.






26. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.






27. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.






28. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.






29. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.






30. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.






31. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.






32. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.






33. Refers to a writers use of language - including the use of literary techniques - word choice - and sentence structure - that sets one writer apart from another.






34. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.






35. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.






36. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.






37. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.






38. A poem that tells a story.






39. A story passed down over the generations that was once believed to be true.






40. The group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed.






41. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.






42. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.






43. The dictionary meaning of a word.






44. The main character of a literary work.






45. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.






46. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.






47. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.






48. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.






49. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.






50. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.